Whats the Difference Between England Britain and the U.K.

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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alisha

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them

maybe first question this week comes

from Duong do two it hum I hope I said

that right

Duong do says hi Alicia how do I

practice listening to English better I

would say make sure you’re doing active

listening not passive listening so

passive listening is like just turning

your phone on or turning your computer

on to something English like an English

movie or an English video on YouTube or

English audio and you leave it and you

go do something else like cleaning or

cooking or doing your homework or

whatever so you’re not paying attention

to the audio you’re not paying attention

to the video at all so you’re just

listening to the background noise

they’re active listening on the other

hand is really focusing in on the things

that you’re hearing so to practice good

active listening of course you can just

listen to audio but I would recommend

trying to read along with the things the

speakers are saying so I think really

fun ways to do this are to use movies

and videos so movies turn on the

subtitles in English to do this and turn

on like YouTube captions as well you can

do that with some of the videos on our

channel and I think that there are some

auto-generated captions that you can use

on our YouTube channel as well so I

would recommend reading along as you

listen so this helps you because it can

help you identify the pronunciations of

unfamiliar words so words that you don’t

know you can learn how to pronounce them

you can also hear the different ways

that native speakers connect words in

everyday speech you can learn how words

are stressed in everyday speech and you

can just pick up new vocabulary words

and work on some grammar patterns too so

I would recommend you practice active

listening not just passive listening

passive listening is fun and easy but

try to do active listening as well so

that you’re really focusing on gaining

new things I hope that this helps you

and good luck with your continued

listening studies okay let’s move on to

your next question next question comes

from Barrett VIN hello bahut bin Fahad

bin says what is the difference between

England British and United Kingdom okay

England is a country one country it is a

noun for example I went to England last

year have you ever been to England

British is an adjective

something that is British is something

or someone that comes from Great Britain

so Great Britain is the largest of the

islands in the British Isles examples my

roommate is British do you speak British

or American English I speak American

English the United Kingdom or the UK is

an area that’s made up of most of the

islands in the British Isles including

Great Britain and it’s made up of a

small part of the northeastern part of

Ireland as well as a few other small

islands in the area this is referred to

as the United Kingdom or the UK examples

have you ever been to the UK I hear it’s

rainy in the United Kingdom okay so I

hope that this helps you understand the

differences between these words thanks

very much for the question all right

moving along to your next question this

week next question comes from Alex hi

Alex Alex says hi what’s the difference

between bush and forest thanks okay in

American English Bush and forest are

quite different however in Australian

English the word Bush could be used to

mean something kind of similar to forest

so first let’s look at how Bush is used

in American English in American English

bush is used to refer to like a shrub

it’s one single plant that is low to the

ground people usually have them in front

of their houses or in a forest among the

trees you might see bushes uh like below

trees so they’re usually not very big

maybe this size or so it depends it

depends on the type of plant but a bush

is a single unit

it’s a single plant examples my

grandparents have lots of bushes in

their yard there’s a row of bushes

leading up to the castle so some of you

may know that this word does have

another slang meaning but it is totally

unrelated to plant life so you can

google that if you like so Bush can also

refer to like an area of wild lands like

untamed creatures and just free growing

plants but that’s something that we only

use in Australian English American

English speakers and to my knowledge

British English speakers do not use this

word forest on the other hand refers to

a huge huge huge area of trees and

creatures and all kinds of wildlife so

for example the Amazon rainforest is a

huge forest so it’s not just one unit

not just one tree or one group of

animals but it’s the whole area all the

plants all the wildlife everything in

that area that’s a forest area so I hope

that this helps you understand the

differences between these words thanks

for an interesting question okay let’s

move on to your next question next

question comes from that’s a sloth hi

spot is love I hope I said that

correctly so that is lots s hi Alicia

could you explain the difference between

other and another okay I talked about

this in a previous episode of ask Alicia

so if you want some more example

sentences and a little bit of a

different explanation you can check out

that video so we use other when we’re

referring to the known alternative in a

situation so if for example our camera

person offers me these two markers and

he offers me the red one but I can see

the blue one I can say no I want the

other one I want this one I want the

other marker so I use the other because

I see that there are two choices in the

situation I am offered one but I say no

I want the other one in the situation we

use another when we want to refer to

something outside the known situation so

here if I’m offer

a red marker and a blue marker and I

don’t want either I can say do you have

another color and maybe I’ll get the

black marker so it’s outside of my

existing options it’s outside of the

known situation another one so for

another example of how we use another

and the other you can check out the

previous episode of ask Alisha that I

talked about I hope that that gives you

another example and another explanation

that can help you understand the

differences between these words so I

hope that that helps you thanks very

much for this question okay let’s move

on to your next question next question

comes from Emma hi Emma

Emma says hi Alicia I’m wondering what I

should say when people ask me what my

job is and I’m just a housewife and

raising kids is it okay to say I have no

job I’m just a housewife well yes but I

definitely wouldn’t say just or I have

no job because I think many people now

today recognized that being a housewife

is a like a kind of job so you could say

yes I’m just a housewife but because

there’s a lot of work related to taking

care of a house and taking care of

children I would say don’t use just just

say I’m a housewife and explain I take

care of my home and my children so I

hope that this helps you yes using

housewife is a great way to describe

what you do thanks very much for your

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